7 C.F.R. § 983.14

Handle.

Last amended: 2016Year: 2026Length: 83 wordsSubsections: 4Official source

Cite as 7 C.F.R. § 983.14 (2026)

Handle means to engage in: (a) Receiving pistachios; (b) Hulling and drying pistachios; (c) Further preparing pistachios by sorting, sizing, shelling, roasting, cleaning, salting, and/or packaging for marketing in or transporting to any and all markets in the current of interstate or foreign commerce; and/or (d) Placing pistachios into the current of commerce from within the production area to points outside thereof: Provided, however, that transportation within the production area between handlers and from the orchard to the processing facility is not handling.
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